PERSONAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr JL, M. Brodie, Hastings., le^t this morning .on a short visit to Carterton. Rotarian L. D. Bestall was congratulated yesterday by the Napier Rotary Club on having been awarded a Coronation medaL Sergk-Major O'Leaiy, formerly of Hastings, who has been on relieving duty at Gisborne, returned to Wellington to-day. Mr. Jock Adams, Ngarawahia, who has been spending a few days with hia patents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Adams, Queen street, Hastings, returns home this evening. Dr. R. J. McGill, of Dunedin, and late of Auckland Hospital, has been appointed to the Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London, as house physician to the dean. Mr. Harofd L Harding, F.R.G.S., late of H.B.M. Consular Service in China, expects to arrive in New Zealand in September to take up hjs home near Auckland. He visited New Zealand last year. Dr. A. G. Couston, of Christchurch, who has been absent from New Zealand since February in connection with Men* tal Hospitals Department business in Edingurgh, has returned from London, Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Miss E. M. Klng, Mrs. G. A. Maddison and Mr. R. Harding, all of whom were xecipients of Coronation medals, were yesterday tendered the congratulations of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board. Miss E. Newton, who for a numiber of yeaTs was a member of the staff of the Hastings braneh Of the Bank of New Zealand, before her transfer to the head office at Wellington, leaves Wellington to.-day( on a trip to the Old Country. Miss Mary Graham, of India, a leoturer of the Social Credit Movement, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Gordon, of Frederick street, Hastings, left to-day for Napier, where she will give a lantern lecture on British art in the Hawke's Bay Art Gallery. During her visit to Napier Miss Graham will be the guest of the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., and Mrs. Barnard.